Bug#879261:

[Alex Henry]

Thank you Luca - I did see that the -nvidia libs are being dropped on the
-8 changelog but I had no idea what that actually meant until I read your
explanation.

I was assuming these were modified library versions by Nvidia with
enhancements to make the most out of the hardware but I guess their removal
goes to show they're equivalent in any way. In that sense, my system should
be fine right now, with maybe just a little headache to make sure all
-nvidia packages are replaced properly in the next update.

Thanks again for the extra information!

On 5 November 2017 at 15:09, Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2017-11-05 at 00:03 -0200, Alex Henry wrote:
> > Just wanted to apologize for my last message since I missed the
> > "Fixed in
> > version nvidia-graphics-drivers/375.82-8" message in the header. It
> > also
> > only seems to have been marked as a resolved bug (bugtracker
> > category) as I
> > was writing it. I'll wait for 375.82-8 to trickle down to testing and
> > try
> > to install it again and report here.
> >
> > Also, usually the bug tracker adds an internal message to the report
> > once
> > the bug is resolved, not sure why it didn't happen here? Maybe it
> > doesn't
> > work like that anymore...
> >
> > Anyway, thanks for the fix, looking forward to having my nvidia
> > driver
> > fully functional again soon!
>
> Hi,
>
> What you noted in the previous email is correct - the problem appears
> to be due to having both i386 and amd64 libglvnd0-nvidia.
>
> There are other problems with that package as noted elsewhere - namely
> not all symbols are exposed, for whatever reason. Although it's an open
> source library we can't know since it's distributed as a binary blob,
> we don't know how Nvidia builds it.
>
> libglvnd0 is the equivalent - they are built from the same source so
> the -nvidia specific ones are getting deprecated and should be removed
> in favour of the "system" ones in -8.
>
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi
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